Report of analytical results from fish and salvaged eaglets

These results summarized in this report are for fish that were collected from Crab Orchard Lake and are cross-checks with Illinois EPA. This memorandum report also contains the results of chemistry from two eaglets that were salvaged as the result of them apparently falling from the nest located at Grassy Bay (a bay of Crab Orchard Lake) . Fifty percent of the fish studied meet or exceed the FDA action level and some type of consumption advisory is probably warranted on Crab Orchard Lake. High PCB concentrations were predicted in the eagles nesting near Crab Orchard Lake, but the measured PCB concentrations were not much different than we see in inland populations that are supposedly removed from sources of high concentrations of PCBs. This suggests that the adult eagles did not feed fish from Crab Orchard Lake to their young during this breeding season.

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